State ex rel. Adkins v. Sobb’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State ex rel. Bitter v. Missig (1995), 63 Ohio App. 3d 32 - International Merchandising Corp. v. Mearns (1989)
37 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Windham Bank v. Tomaszczyk · 65 Ohio St. 2d 10 - State ex rel. Ventrone v. Birkel · Zakany v. Zakany
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person guilty of any of the following acts may be punished as for a contempt: (A) Disobedience of, or resistance to, a lawful writ, process, order, rule, judgment, or command of a court or an officer[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is no defense to a finding of civil contempt that a party acted in good faith or upon the advice of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.